have you alluded to a possible support-class or is it just a mistranslation?

The Q was would we ever do a fourth role. I said unlikely. Then the Q was if we had to a do a 4th, what would it be.
I said we sort of had a support role in the past so it would make sense. (Still pretty unlikely though.)

I'm sorry, what was that, OP? I can't hear you over my epic facemelter guitar solo boosting the raid's DPS. You're just jelly that all of us bards are gonna be rock stars if they ever put bards into the game.

I loved playing bard on Rift beta. Though, in WoW, I wouldn't make it support. It would be a healer/rdps/mdps like Shaman. Percussion melee (maces only 1h or 2h), facemelter range (2h axes only), songmender healer (2h axes only)(or they could go the vocals route, which would allow them any weapon; this would change facemelter to spellsinger). I don't think any other class wants every axe we get to be designed to be an instrument, and slapping a 'strings-go-here' field for when every older axe is used by a bard would be a lot of effort (hero class might reduce the workload here). Also, s-priests already melt faces. Another question is stats. I mean, sure, they could make int/spirit axes (Shaman could use them just as well as Bards), but Blizzard'd probably want to reuse Strength axes, which would make the whole thing weird. It's all very much a stretch though.

As usual, for every player who likes a new class idea, there is somebody who immediately ridicules it. Seems like it was a mistranslation anyhow....whatever a support class would be, it would also need to be able to level on its own.

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

... there are lots of different types of players, with different amounts of time to play, and different tastes for the content and difficulty and time commitment they want to give to any of those pieces of content. The person that plays for an hour or so a few times a week is playing the same game as the person that plays five hours every night.....